Aid Flows Into Iraq Shiite Town After Siege Broken

WochitSep. 01, 2014. 05:03 AM EST

Aid began to flow to a small northern Shiite town in Iraq on Monday, a day after security forces ...
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Aid began to flow to a small northern Shiite town in Iraq on Monday, a day after security forces backed by Iran-allied Shiite militias and U.S. airstrikes broke a two-month siege by Sunni militants. Ali al-Bayati, who heads local NGO the Turkmen Saving Foundation, said that four trucks loaded with foodstuffs, medicine and fruit had entered the town of Amirli.
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